You are not even fooling yourself. You know this rhetoric explicitly equates being gay to a transmissible disease. It was intended to be negative. It was intended to put disincentives in place for gay people existing openly in public. I know you don't believe this was fine.
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @MjrKusanagi and
Well why the fuck wouldn't it? If everything is subject to social contagion why wouldn't being around gay people make you more likely to be gay? (Here we go, this is the pointy end of the wedge right here)
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @arthur_affect and
So why call it a "contagion" and not an "understanding", "awareness" or "insight"? Here's the answer: because contagions are bad. Singal knew exactly what the fuck he was writing.
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @MjrKusanagi and
Again, it really isn't - the term was coined specifically to describe forms of madness - "irrational" behaviors that couldn't be explained otherwise, specifically St. Vitus' dance in medieval times
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
Trying to change the term so it refers to anything people do because other people do it, like brushing your teeth, is a modern attempt to "rescue" the term
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Well, he thinks the mom and dad who forbade their teenage son from seeing or speaking to his friends because they were filling his mind with an insane obsession with becoming a man were decent people doing their best You don't think that colors one's impression of his motives
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